Chapter Summaries

Sheng An and her team traced the Vampire Mosquito outbreak to the escaped meteorite fragment, which was carried by a giant Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito that repeatedly shed its skin to escape them. Their pursuit ended outside the base, where they found Long Tianyu dying in the Acid Rain beside Qiu Yu, recreating Sheng An’s prophecy.

• Sheng An reversed time to save one dying guard, identified the Research Institute as the source of the Vampire Mosquitoes, and ordered a base-wide alarm.
• Sheng An’s team entered the Research Institute and found that dozens of giant mosquitoes were breeding swarms, while the meteorite fragment was missing.
• Sheng An used Time Reversal to reveal that a huge Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito carried the fragment, but it escaped after shedding layers of skin.
• Long Tianyu pursued the creature, and Sheng An, Qi Lingwu, and Ji Yani followed it beyond the north gate.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu found Long Tianyu lying in the Acid Rain, his body being eaten away, while Qiu Yu stood beside him.

Sheng An and Jia Guangliang fought to save Long Tianyu after he was badly corroded by the acid rain, while the others hurried to reach them. Long Tianyu's heart began beating again, and Sheng An welcomed the arriving team as she collapsed from exhaustion.

• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu pulled Long Tianyu from the acid rain, and Sheng An repeatedly used Time Reversal while Qi Lingwu sent Ji Yani to fetch Jia Guangliang.
• Ji Yani brought Jia Guangliang to Long Tianyu, while Wu Buyu carried Jiang Yu and the others toward them.
• Sheng An realized that each collapse of her White Clock was undoing the time she had reversed, and she kept trying to hold Long Tianyu's time in place with the meteorite fragment.
• Jia Guangliang poured all his healing power into Long Tianyu, restarting his heart and continuing to heal him after Sheng An stopped reversing time.
• Wu Buyu and the others arrived as Sheng An, badly injured and exhausted, said their trip to the Southwest to pick them up had been worth it, Divine Lord.

Jia Guangliang and the others saved Long Tianyu, who briefly woke and assured them he would live. As the team questioned how he had been attacked, Sheng An confronted Qiu Yu, whose earlier actions revealed how she had learned of the mosquito outbreak and left confinement.

• Jia Guangliang, Song Linwei, and Jiang Yu combined their abilities to keep Long Tianyu alive, while Li Xin protected the group from the acid rain.
• Long Tianyu opened his eyes long enough to tell everyone he would not die, bringing relief to the Special Affairs Office team.
• Ji Yani reported that Long Tianyu had been found in the same scene as Qin Xuan's prophecy and that Qiu Yu had been beside him, prompting suspicion.
• Sheng An, supported by Qi Lingwu, asked Qiu Yu why she was there.
• Qiu Yu's earlier confinement at the Superpower Biology Research Institute was revealed: she had used puppet threads to monitor people outside and learned that a mosquito outbreak had begun.

Qiu Yu recounted seeing a cloaked figure she believed was M, but she had lost her memory of what happened after tracking it. The surveillance footage contradicted her account, and Sheng An concluded that Qiu Yu was M.

• Qiu Yu explained that she saw a giant Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito fly from the North District and spotted a cloaked figure nearby who seemed to look back at her before severing her puppet threads.
• Qiu Yu said she followed the figure to the scene where Long Tianyu was attacked, but could not remember what happened after arriving there.
• Wan Yuan reported that surveillance showed no figure or mosquito, while Hao Jingye found footage of Qiu Yu escaping, removing her handcuffs, and destroying her monitoring device.
• Qiu Yu insisted she had seen M and argued that her implausible story made her unlikely to be the culprit.
• Sheng An pointed to the evidence connecting Qiu Yu to Long Tianyu's attack and declared, "You are M, Qiu Yu."

Group B confronted Qiu Yu after Sheng An identified her as M, and the arriving Group A debated whether to believe the accusation. Sheng An’s lethal attack was blocked by Qiu Yu’s hidden powers, leaving Qiu Yu stunned and asking whether Sheng An had truly meant to kill her.

• Group A arrived to support Group B after the Vampire Mosquito Mother Organism escaped, and Xiang Hanshuang explained that Doctor Yan suspected Qiu Yu’s departure was connected to M.
• Jiang Yu told Group A that Sheng An believed Qiu Yu was M, while the others argued over Qiu Yu’s past conduct and the lack of proof.
• Sheng An said she would rather kill the wrong person than let M escape, and Group B’s remaining fighters moved to surround Qiu Yu.
• Sheng An lunged at Qiu Yu and fired at her forehead, but Qiu Yu’s puppet threads disrupted the attack and a Spatial Barrier stopped the bullet.
• Sheng An called Qiu Yu’s hidden powers evidence that she was M, while Qiu Yu stared at her hands and asked whether Sheng An had really tried to kill her.

Sheng An declared Qiu Yu to be M and ordered the Special Affairs Office to attack her, while Qiu Yu insisted she was innocent and escaped their assault. Qi Lingwu’s fully powered King's Anchor passed through Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye, leaving his identity in question.

• Sheng An explained that M could be an Otherkind unaware of its identity and convinced the gathered agents that Qiu Yu was M.
• Qiu Yu denied being M, but Qi Lingwu argued that the evidence mattered more than her own belief, and Sheng An ordered the agents to attack.
• Qiu Yu used her puppet threads and powerful abilities to fight off the agents, then controlled Qu Yi to carry her away.
• Sheng An called on Qi Lingwu, who fired his fully charged King's Anchor at Qiu Yu as she tried to flee.
• The King's Anchor passed through Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye behind Zhang Kun's protective barrier.

Sheng An exposed Hao Jingye as M, an Otherkind who had been beside the Special Affairs Office from the beginning. Hao Jingye’s copied abilities had let him frame Qiu Yu, and the chapter ended with the team realizing how he had done it.

• Sheng An used King's Anchor and her time-stopping ability to expose Hao Jingye as M after his copied abilities and Undying Body kept him from being killed.
• Hao Jingye admitted that Sheng An had trapped him and removed his glasses, revealing his altered, red-eyed appearance.
• Sheng An explained that Hao Jingye had been an Otherkind and a Reborn from the beginning, sent back alongside the other Otherkind.
• Ruan Zifeng and Song Linwei connected Hao Jingye’s presence in the Special Affairs Office to his ability to arrange the awakening of others’ second superpowers.
• Sheng An identified Hao Jingye’s superpower as Copying, and Ruan Zifeng concluded he had copied abilities including King's Anchor, enhancement, and Spatial Barrier to frame Qiu Yu.

Sheng An revealed Hao Jingye as M by using Qi Lingwu’s king’s anchor to identify the person strengthening Qiu Yu, then explained why she had trusted Qiu Yu despite making her appear guilty. She apologized for targeting Qiu Yu and for abandoning her six years earlier, but said she would make the same choices again.

• Sheng An confronted Hao Jingye about copying abilities and framing Qiu Yu, and he admitted that he had acted to stay with the team and remain hidden.
• Sheng An explained that M had to retain part of his humanity, so she had never suspected Qiu Yu or her other teammates and had used the apparent investigation of Qiu Yu to force M to act.
• Ruan Zifeng explained that Qi Lingwu’s king’s anchor followed the power strengthening Qiu Yu and struck Hao Jingye, exposing him as M.
• Sheng An apologized to Qiu Yu for making her the target of the bluff and for leaving her behind during a mission six years earlier.
• Sheng An told Qiu Yu that she valued the mission first and would make the same choices again, while also being willing to sacrifice anything for her teammates.

Sheng An revealed the truth behind her past conflict with Qiu Yu and confronted Hao Jingye, now identified as M, in a battle of time superpowers. As the base faced a worsening mosquito crisis, Qi Lingwu and the Special Affairs Office prepared to support Sheng An, while Song Linwei stepped into Hao Jingye’s former role.

• Jiang Yu and the others learned that Sheng An had made a painful but necessary choice six years earlier, and Qiu Yu said she forgave Hao Jingye.
• Sheng An asked Hao Jingye why he had sided with the Otherkind, and he replied that humanity would lose the war.
• Sheng An used the Fragments and Qi Lingwu’s energy to summon a White Clock and attack Hao Jingye with a time hand, but he blocked her with his own time power.
• The base director ordered everyone to monitor the battle and focus on containing the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, which were overwhelming the base.
• Hao Jingye opened a loophole in the temporal standoff and fired at Sheng An, but Qi Lingwu countered every shot.
• Song Linwei joined Sheng An and told the Special Affairs Office to counter Hao Jingye with their own superpowers, taking on the responsibility Hao Jingye had once carried.

Sheng An and the combat-type Superpower Persons battled Hao Jingye while secretly searching for the damaged Fragment beneath them. As the Capital City Base fought an outbreak of Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, Sheng An revealed that Hao Jingye was not her intended target.

• Li Xin, Li Wanyun, Wu Buyu, Liu Yue, Ke Jiaxue, Lou Mingwei, Xiang Hanshuang, Jiang Ling, and Nie Changshui joined Sheng An in attacking Hao Jingye, who copied their abilities and resisted them with his undying body.
• Song Linwei alerted Wan Yuan that they still did not know where the damaged Fragment was, and Wan Yuan relayed that Qiu Yu had helped Qin Xuan locate it beneath their feet.
• Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes spread through the Capital City Base, and the Base Chief, Doctor Yan, and Elder Li kept the Protective Shield closed to stop them escaping.
• Wan Yuan told Sheng An that the Fragment was under them, so Sheng An and Qi Lingwu prepared to act while the others unleashed their strongest attacks on Hao Jingye.
• Hao Jingye countered their attacks with copied powers, but Sheng An said he was not the one she wanted to kill.

Sheng An’s team killed the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito mother organism and burned its vulnerable offspring, completing their mission. Back at the base, the Mutant Fish Mint revealed it could grow enormous and kill Vampire Mosquitoes across the districts, leaving the base with a powerful defense.

• Mountain Blossom exploited Hao Jingye’s focus on himself, allowing Qi Lingwu to kill the hidden Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito beneath him.
• Hao Jingye tried to protect the incubating second-generation mother organisms, but Zhang Kun doused them in gasoline and Sheng An set them alight.
• Sheng An reported that the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito mother organism had been killed and the mission was complete.
• Academician Zhou learned that Mutant Fish Mint repelled Vampire Mosquitoes and that its scent could kill them, and the Base Chief ordered fish mint planted throughout the base.
• Mutant Fish Mint whipped the people nearby away, grew to enormous size, and spread its powerful scent across the base, killing Vampire Mosquitoes in multiple districts.

Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office stopped Hao Jingye’s Vampire Mosquito plan and learned the base had eliminated the Mother Organism. Hao Jingye escaped after throwing a damaged Fragment that pierced Sheng An.

• The Mutant Fish Mint spread across the base, and the Chief Base Director ordered the lockdown to continue while the base destroyed the remaining mosquitoes.
• The base director received confirmation that the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito Mother Organism had been eliminated.
• Sheng An told Hao Jingye that she understood his plan, and she and the others concluded that they had stopped his threat by killing the Mutant Blood-Sucking Mosquito.
• Hao Jingye admitted defeat, then warned Sheng An before hurling the damaged Fragment toward Jiang Yu.
• Jiang Yu was dragged out of her space, and the Fragment pierced Sheng An as Hao Jingye flew away.

Hao Jingye’s damaged fragment targeted Jiang Yu, but Qiu Yu used her puppet ability to take the fatal strike meant for Sheng An. Qiu Yu died after the fragment drained her life, and she and Sheng An reconciled before saying goodbye.

• Sheng An realized the fragment would ignore their superpowers and lunged to protect Jiang Yu with Mountain Blossom’s time loophole.
• Qiu Yu linked herself to Sheng An with puppet threads and transferred the fragment’s strike to herself.
• Sheng An removed the fragment while Jia Guangliang tried to heal Qiu Yu, but the fragment drained her energy and life force.
• Qiu Yu admitted she had taken the blow because she did not want Sheng An to die, and Sheng An told her they would meet again.
• Qiu Yu dissolved into blood after she and Sheng An exchanged a final farewell.

After Qiu Yu sacrificed herself to save Jiang Yu, Sheng An and the Special Affairs Office brought her uniform back to the base and honored her as a hero. The team gathered on the rooftop that night, grieving Qiu Yu and confronting the truth that Hao Jingye was M.

• Qiu Yu vanished under the Fragments' influence after giving her life to save Jiang Yu, while the others realized Hao Jingye had been M all along.
• Sheng An insisted that Qiu Yu had left everything behind and led the team back to the base carrying her bloodstained uniform.
• Elder Li saluted Sheng An and Qi Lingwu as they brought Qiu Yu home as a hero.
• Sheng An placed Qiu Yu's uniform in a memorial compartment beside the fallen members of Team 0 and vowed to restore the land so the dead could return to it.
• Sheng An and Qi Lingwu left to review the incident, while the sleepless team gathered on the rooftop and mourned Qiu Yu and their memories of Hao Jingye.

The group reviewed the Vampire Mosquitoes, Hao Jingye, and the damaged Fragment, concluding that Hao Jingye may have used the mosquitoes to aid the Otherkind. They secured the dangerous Fragment, but could not explain why Hao Jingye had been so determined to kill Jiang Yu, leaving her space as a crucial mystery.

• Song Linwei led the group in reviewing the Vampire Mosquitoes and their connection to Hao Jingye and the Fragments.
• Ruan Zifeng confirmed the Vampire Mosquitoes had been wiped out and burned, while the Mutant Fish Mint rested after helping destroy them.
• The group theorized that Hao Jingye might have created the mosquitoes to obtain human blood and accelerate the Otherkind's evolution.
• Zhang Kun took the box of Fragments from his space, and Sheng An inspected the damaged Fragment before closing it away.
• Jiang Yu and the others questioned why Hao Jingye had discarded the Fragment and prioritized killing Little Fish, suspecting his actions were tied to Jiang Yu's space.

The group analyzed Hao Jingye’s motives and discovered he had another unknown ability that had stopped Jiang Yu from entering her space. With dawn approaching, Song Linwei asked Sheng An to decide whether they should collect the meteorite fragments.

• Jiang Yu agreed to cooperate with the government’s study of her space, while Li Wanyun said Hao Jingye likely knew what had happened in their previous lives.
• Wu Buyu translated Zhuang Fan’s question about why Hao Jingye had waited to attack, and the group reasoned that he had stayed near Sheng An to gather information and conceal his identity.
• Song Linwei argued that Sheng An’s prophecy image suggested humanity had assembled all the fragments in their previous lives, and Li Wanyun explained that Hao Jingye had joined Sheng An to learn what she would eventually collect.
• Jiang Yu recalled that she had been bounced out of her space, leading Qi Lingwu and the others to conclude Hao Jingye possessed another unknown ability.
• Song Linwei asked Sheng An to decide whether they should report to the Research Institute that they would collect the fragments, and everyone waited for her answer.

Sheng An told the group to collect the Fragments without assembling them, then faced the Mutant Fish Mint, which demanded that she fulfill her promise to restore its lost leaves. She explained that its original leaves could not be recovered, but gave it five leaves with Time Reversal; the fish mint immediately demanded even more.

• Sheng An decided that the group should collect the Fragments first and not assemble them.
• The Mutant Fish Mint climbed onto the rooftop and demanded that Sheng An fulfill her promise to give it lush leaves.
• Sheng An explained that the fish mint's lost leaves had vanished with a collapsed time layer and could not be restored.
• The Mutant Fish Mint's complaints sparked a rooftop shouting match, with Wu Buyu translating between it and the others.
• Sheng An plucked five leaves and used Time Reversal to give the fish mint six leaves in total.
• The Mutant Fish Mint inspected its new leaves and demanded many more.

Sheng An reconsidered how each battle against the Otherkind had brought the group closer to victory and the truth, while suspecting Old Qin had acted strangely. After a chaotic morning in which the Mutant Fish Mint plucked Jiang Ling bald, the group learned that Long Tianyu had woken up and hurried to the hospital.

• The Mutant Fish Mint clung to Jiang Ling after Sheng An encouraged it to evolve more leaves, and the group ended its rooftop discussion with collecting the Fragments as an interim objective.
• Sheng An told Qi Lingwu that Old Qin had seemed strange, then reflected that the group's victories against the Otherkind had repeatedly led to valuable discoveries and gains.
• The Mutant Fish Mint plucked Jiang Ling's hair while she slept, prompting Jiang Ling to chase it and then attack Lou Mingwei when he mocked her.
• Song Linwei announced that Long Tianyu had woken up, and Sheng An and the others headed for the hospital.

Long Tianyu woke in the hospital and told Sheng An’s team that Qiu Yu had attacked him, but they explained that Qiu Yu had died protecting Sheng An and that Hao Jingye was the real M. After learning how much had happened while he was unconscious, Long Tianyu discovered he had been out for only one day.

• Doctor Yan and Director Wang confirmed that Long Tianyu was out of danger, and Sheng An and the team visited him.
• Long Tianyu recalled that Qiu Yu had attacked him after the acid rain, using Puppet Threads to control him.
• Sheng An’s team discussed how Hao Jingye had arranged the attack and whether psychic powers or puppet abilities had influenced Qiu Yu.
• Wu Buyu explained that Jia Guangliang had resurrected Long Tianyu, Hao Jingye had escaped after the Vampire Mosquito crisis, and Qiu Yu had died protecting Sheng An.
• Long Tianyu asked whether he had been unconscious for years, and Wu Buyu told him it had been one day.

Sheng An’s group strengthened defenses while waiting for Hao Jingye, and the bases enjoyed a month of improving conditions before the cold wave arrived earlier than expected. The chapter ends with Sheng An ordering everyone to move as the temperature suddenly plunged.

• Long Tianyu learned that Hao Jingye was a mole and Qiu Yu was dead, while Sheng An’s group discussed Hao Jingye’s unknown abilities and warned every base to stay alert.
• Jiang Yu took the Mutant Fish Mint to the Wasteland Cultivation Research Institute, where it was expected to support large-scale cultivation.
• A month passed without signs of Hao Jingye, and Song Linwei reported falling casualties, repaired roads, and supplies delivered to the bases.
• Sheng An’s group discussed the approaching cold wave and the hope that mutant plants could eventually restore life to the wasteland.
• Sheng An heard cracking sounds as the temperature plunged and rushed outside, announcing that the cold wave had arrived early.